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Whilst it's easy to assume that your tech-savy audience won't be using IE for their desktops, please remember that anyone with a Windows phone will also be forced to use IE. I've used a Windows phone, and it's not as dreadful as you'd think. In fact it's quite a nice experience. As tempting as it is, please don't start completely dropping support for IE unless that extra dev time really wouldn't affect your customers (considering your future customers too).
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I think the approach is what the parent is reacting to and I don't disagree that the approach is definitely reminiscent of items that are sold that are of the "get rich quick" variety. Others in the comments have also pointed this out as well.

From skimming it (no patience to read every word) it seemed to follow a well known formula where the author probably read a book on how to create this type of thing himself which he paid for. So my reaction was the same and in another comment I asked the OP to offer up his expertise to give this info at all.

That said, it would be fascinating to have an a/b test of two approaches. One which is typically interpreted as "sleezy" (that the parent objects to that has been done and the point of this thread) and another approach that doesn't reek of that. Part of me wants to say that the "sleezy" approach will work better otherwise why would people be doing it? The other part of me wants to say "the non-sleazy" way will work that the only reason people take the sleazy approach is that they are parroting what others are doing (or what they have been taught).
This dates back to Oct 2009, just after IE8 release.
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I believe Bonjour is used for Airport Express speakers and for sharing music over the network.
I'm pretty sure he could find fault in a child's lemonade stand.

Not knocking what he stands for though, digital freedom is important, but nothing seems to be truly ethical. It's the price we pay for convenience.
Is this front page worth materiel? I mean, it's good you took the time to add a ', but doing the same with sed would have been faster.

Alternatively, do you know about ls -lhrS? It will print size in human formats and reverse sort the files by size - ie the bigger will be at the end of the list
Well, I'd caution you not to make argumentum ad populum an organizing principle in your life. I've seen it attempted many times and rarely if ever does it result in increased happiness.
Well, here's the second time.

iTunes at least works on a Mac. Microsoft have failed at creating a usable UI on their own platform. The formerly-known-as-Metro design has completely failed when implemented in Zune.

It's also missing features such as backup and sync for contacts and messages, while offering a mandatory(!!) sync with their cloud. No thanks, I just helped a friend switch from WP to iPhone for this last reason alone.
This is actually a problem I wish I had. I'd love to work with an uber programmer who was better than me as long as they had some patience , not too much ego and were happy to help me learn.

What I find is more common though is working with very sub-par developers who have no interest in advancing their skills.
I literally just bought a book of Amazon three minutes ago. I couldn't find it anywhere else. A local author and the book was only available in hardcover. I guess I'm just a sucker for convenience.
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My thoughts exactly. This is just complexity for complexity's sake. Useful as an exercise, but the -h flag already does this is an even more readable manner.
That's one of the reasons why I've enjoyed keeping up with school. I never finished (yet), but I've been taking a class or two per semester for the past 4 years or so. Keeps you thinking in different ways and introduces you to new things!
Reasons to buy from Amazon:

* Cheap

* Consistent

* Fast shipping

* Good product availability

* Good return policies

* Vendor and item ratings
Surely the appropriate option character for this new, human-readable output is "-h".

Makes you wonder whether anyone ever considered the problem before...
I don't mean to pick on OP, but I'm always a little surprised at how some authors can make money, by writing about how to make money. When in fact, the way they made money was selling books about it, not necessarily by the advice found in their books.

I personally don't feel qualified to write about how to build a successful business, because I feel my business isn't satisfactorily large or successful enough. Though I'm pretty sure I could write about it. I guess I'm surprised to see peers doing this as a means to become successful and raise money. It's almost like a self fulfilling prophecy.
Being right for the wrong reason can be even worse than being wrong. CMB is very relevant to the question of the color of the sky, it just happens to be pre-star material.
I share your experience.
> Amazon publishes ebooks designed to attack your freedom (PDF[1] or html[2]).

This is real. There is something wrong with the way Amazon deals with ebooks, and it is sad to see people backing it up.

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[1]: http://stallman.org/articles/ebooks.pdf

[2]: http://gnu.org/philosophy/the-danger-of-ebooks.html
Rsyslog has a file source module: imfile( http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/imfile.html). May help in some cases.

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from my own experience, yes it does. The way it worked for me was that I was ready to take more risky or uncomfortable decisions.

But from reading your post I sense that you don't really want to do this (who wants to be desperate? nobody): "The experiment starts once I do a Show HN."

For me, building something that you can show should be included in the experiment. So you should start right now!
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No, that's not how the system works. The system works around a concept called "synchronization rights", which pertain to the synchronization of sound and picture - which is exactly what's going on here.

Selling synchronization rights is a specific (and highly lucrative) line of business for artists and music publishers. That's what they're fighting to protect. They don't care if this was supposed to be commercial or not, any more than they care whether a commercial producer using their music in a feature film ends up making or losing money on the picture. They sell synchronization rights. You want 'em, you buy 'em. Or you get sued for infringing them. Those are your choices, that's their perspective in a nutshell, and they recognize no exceptions for "personal use". Right or wrong, the law is 100% on their side. Moreover, the fact that this video went viral and started producing actual ad revenue means that it is - regardless of intention - a clearly became commercial piece of media.

Again, the entire situation is completely outside anything that anyone imagined in the pre-internet age, which is when the market for synchronization rights was established. The culture is developing is ways the law didn't anticipate, and which the law, to my mind, should not obstruct. However, I don't think it's smart to pretend this isn't a synch rights issue when that's exactly what it is.

If EFF's object is to expand the scope of Fair Use to cover situations like this, and to create a precedent that demands publishers consider Fair Use before issuing take downs, then the issue of synchronization rights must be squarely addressed, not evaded by pretending that the audio track is incidental when that's demonstrably not the case.
...and they charge sales tax now :-(
If I challenge you it's for discussion. Also to point out that others might be thinking the things that I think (at least some people) but not raise the issue. And you could loose business from them. They might look at your planscope page and note that there aren't bios on anyone. That may be important to them. Now if you're a 1 person company there could be a strategic reason for doing that ("better to be thought a fool then to open your mouth and remove all doubt"). But if you have a "crew" why not do more than just include a picture?

I've been observing business for a long long time. You will do great because you've got the proper degree of BS mixed together with things that you've learned in a short period of time and the ability to take advantage of people's generally trusting nature. Nothing wrong with that. When I started my first business (long time ago) I didn't have any employees and I had a big customer that wanted to visit (physical location - about 1500sf). So I brought in people to just stand around and look like I had employees. I got the contract and kept it for almost 5 or 6 years. I'm lucky that the person giving the contract wasn't me and wasn't able to see through it.

Added: "I'm the owner of We Are Titans, my consultancy" your HN profile doesn't say this, it should.
The last time I worked in a shop with "uber programmers," it was more like a CS circle-jerk oriented around who can come up with the more useless abstraction of working code. At any rate, your "as long as" qualification means you're probably looking for a company with older coders.
Just wait until you have an employee... you'll realize your just a dude trying to make 2 dude's livings.
true. Basically we sell a digital service, we get %22 of visitors to sign up, %2 of them buy the full version.

Our day to day business is to a/b test and get the percentages up a notch. When you know how many ppl buy from your total visitors you know how much to pay for ppc - And then seo becomes almost irrelevant.
Google Docs is really awesome, and I use it every day.

But the key difference is that JotPot is made especially for students - so it does things like automatically sharing the slides with everyone taking the same course and sorting your notes by subject.
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I'm mentoring a few people learning Python, and I wanted to quickly evaluate LearnStreet and decide whether to recommend it.

With Codecademy I could do that, here I cannot. So Codecademy it is.

Skipping is a really important feature for those who you hope would promote your service for you :-)
Most of these are problems with any large company, not Amazon per se.

Yes, companies want to kill competition by any means and do all sorts of bad-for-the-consumer and bad-for-workers things. We didn't just wake up yesterday into the industrial era. That's all of capitalism. Amazon isn't special, just high-profile.

> if you rent a server from Amazon, you have no rights.

Amazon isn't in the business of granting rights.

If you don't like any of the things included in Stallman's list, don't expect change to come from Amazon or some boycott thereof. The change should come from us by way of better governance.

I feel like Stallman missed a good time to make a positive point on why we need better governance and perhaps regulation to reign in the much uglier parts of corporations/capitalism/behavior that we might as a society not like. He could have been inspiring and spoken to a much wider audience than the paranoia crowd.

Instead he wanted to make a negative piece about Amazon. It made the top of HN, where we'll talk aboutit for 15 hours, and then nobody else will listen.

More generally I think its safe to say that people will not listen to a boycott that inconveniences them. They might listen to a positive message on the reasons we should support and enact laws upholding digital freedoms, worker rights, and things to stop anti-competitive practices.

There are a lot of digital freedom causes worth championing, but I'm always disappointed by Stallman. It's easy to hate. We need more positive people that can frame causes like this more effectively.
He also hates many things that aren't popular as well. The popularity of what is being criticized seems an odd way to gauge the worth of the criticism.
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Can you elaborate what's the problem with DRM?
To continue your idea, n9 was stable at launch and with v1.3 it is pretty solid for a platform that was effectively abandoned.

If Nokia had continued to invest in performance optimizations, bug fixes and new hardware it would fight shoulder to shoulder with the Android and iOS of today.
He was a business division president not the CEO. Ballmer is the CEO. Actually, iirc, he was the business division president for Office, so he didn't even have a history with the phone division. I suspect his move was due less to some undying loyalty to Microsoft and more to him deciding it was his best option (one may disagree, but we also aren't aware of the other options/limitations/incentives in place when the decision was made, so we are just arm-chair quarterbacking).
Why not just raise your rate regardless of some book -- isn't that really the take away message? I've also been consulting as an independent for 7 years now. I have not raised my rate, but nor have I lowered it (ever). I have turned down plenty jobs, and some have walked away because they did not want to pay the rate, but I have been doing this 40+ hours / week for 7 years now.

I do feel like it is time to raise my rate, though, and the next project I start I will.

I'm not implying the book / info is a scam, I'm just questioning whether a book is necessary vs. a simple well-written blog piece which reasons out what rate is justifiable for your particular situation.
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Agreed. And buyer protection + great customer service. (Zappos level)
How does Amazon deal with eBooks any differently than any other eBook seller?
Just one of my products, Freckle, makes $30,000 a month… more than 6x what you claim is impossible. On, what, you say? Time tracking. A space in which we are a tiny niche player. http://letsfreckle.com

But there's no point in letting facts get in the way of righteous condemnation, is there?
Says the man who charges to have his photograph taken by fans

Independent bookstores are nice, but they fail to account for the long tail, that's where Amazon shines.

And for the "common books" the big chains do an ok job. E.g. Harry Potter

(Still, physical B&N stores seem to be going away, Borders is history already)
Wonderful article. This is the second article in hackers about writing. I am pushing my small son to always write.
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We did look at that: we couldn't figure out a good way to have rsyslog read in the file and then send it remotely to another TCP syslog server. Is that possible?

Also, this let us run on machines which aren't necessarily running rsyslog (you could use it on a Windows machine, provided you had tail installed).
And "wrong" means "so evil they should be boycotted utterly"?

There are many things I don't like about how Amazon deals with ebooks, but there are many things that are good about it as well, and I prefer to not let perfect be the enemy of good.
That sum is even easier to process as finite if you represent it in binary:

1 + 0.1 + 0.01 + 0.001 + 0.0001 +...

clearly, after any number of terms have gone by, you're still not at two (though of course, once they all have, you are).
I can still picture myself sitting next to a shelf full of programming books and thinking the same thing, johnrob, so I know how that feels.

When I started looking into advancing my career, though, I realized that I would just have to market myself to my prospective employers.

The self-sell vs. product-sell marketing skills overlap far more than not. Focusing one one leads to a lot more autonomy (and sometimes profit), though.
Yes, when it's a matter of convenience vs ethical soundness convenience will win every time.
Your first sentence is good. But putting it out there suggest I've hit a nerve.

Indeed, the world may turned upside down. What is sleaze today may not be sleaze many years from now. It is too early to tell what will become acceptable as a norm in the unforseeable future. I refer only to the present and the forseeable future.

If this type of "business" was unquestionably acceptable practice today, there would be no nerve to hit. There would be not point to argue.

But your opening sentence also attempts to confuse the issue. To use an infommercial example, selling advice on how to produce infommercials does not mean "the weak" are the folks who purchase this advice. While one may be further removed from the business of actually interfacing with "the weak", it does not make one's business any less reliant on that target audience.

It is what it is. This sort of business is fine for some people. I'm simply saying it's not for everyone and it will continue to carry a stigma.
Think of the story as a mystery.

Let's just say "I know a gal" who was fired from a company in the Valley because of that very discrimination. She had a master's degree and had been at the company almost 1+ year when she discovered that than the guy she was training, a dropout art school student whose "industry experience" amounted to working at Home Depot as a cashier was earning more. When my friend asked for equal pay for equal work, citing Obama's signing of Lily Ledbetter, her employers cut her salary to hourly, started writing her up for even the most minor infraction, and eventually ended up firing her. From what she tells me, she was unable to afford legal representation, Silicon Valley attorneys literally laughed at her (said they would not take the case for free), so she ended up signing a stack of legal mumbo jumbo that literally raped her of all her legal rights.

Think of the actions that are alleged to have taken place.

What are the motivations of these actions? How does the villain profit by those actions?

Why would an employer pay a long time employee with a Masters degree less than a new hire with no experience, and then prefer to fire her rather than bring her salary up to par.

When given evidence of this unfairness, especially in light of Lilly Ledbetter as well as the Equal Pay Act of 1963, why is it that there were no attorneys willing to take this case.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and the story is entirely OUT of line with what we know of the behaviors of lawyers as well as the behavior of modern HR departments or CEOs or managers.

Because it makes you uncomfortable to acknowledge that this kind of shit can (and does) happen in an industry you like to idolize?

So now you're speculating, and actually being pretty insulting, about my inner states of mind in at least two regards.

Since you don't know me, you might find it less insulting, more productive, and more persuasive to stick to fact based questioning:

1) Show the claim is rather common and not extraordinary
2) Provide motives for this behavior to occur
3) Provide reasoning why lawyers wouldn't take this case in a heartbeat.
I can't figure out if they're saying they're dropping support for IE6, or ALL of IE.

If the latter, give me a break. By my count, over 50% of our traffic comes from IE.

Extra development to support IE7 and above last year: 2 hours.

You're telling me it's not worth 2 hours per year to stop yourself from alienating 50% of your market?

Plus, IE8 and IE9 are pretty compatible in that whatever works in Webkit/Firefox will pretty much work every time in IE8+.
Went to a session at Silicon Valley Code Camp, where this was mentioned. It seems like a good intermediary between code inspection and anecdotal recommendations.
If you know where I can hire decent Rails developers for $100 an hour or less, please let me know! That's not the kind of rate I see.

Just a couple weeks ago a talented 15-year-old in Belarus told me his rate was $100/hr. And when I said "Sorry, you don't have the experience to justify that rate for me," he told me his last client paid just a little less.
This stuff worries me big time, but I'm hoping someone's going to fix it somehow. It's like one of those waking nightmares!
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Nobody is arguing that the intention was simply to post the song. They're saying that a portion of the song was used illegally and without permission.

Also, 29 seconds is ~30 seconds, which is the length of a standard TV commercial. In a world where all identifiable samples need to be licensed, that's not "very short" at all.

I know that telling people they're categorically wrong when it comes to copyright is perceived as defending copyright. I want to be clear that I recognize the need for substantial copyright reform and liberalization. When I say "you're wrong" I don't mean that reform and liberalization are bad things. I simply mean that you have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to the law itself, and how it actually works. I think widespread ignorance is a bad thing among those who (quite justifiably) would like to see the law changed.
When I buy something, I like to know it's mine, rather than just 'in my possession with permission to use'.

For example, depending on the EULA (and also jurisdiction), if you declare bankruptcy, you have to delete all your local copies of DRM-ed media, because you no longer have the permission to use them, even though you already paid for it.
Well then someone should make the open Kindle. I love my kindle and haven't bought a dead tree book since I got it.
First of all, this article is from Oct 2009. I missed the date at the top and i scrolled up after reading this line.

> Google Wave team also chose to drop Internet Explorer support

3 years is a significantly long period of time in the browser world and Chrome was a 1 yr old browser and there was no IE9. Also, there was no windows phone 7.

Once in a few months, an article pops up telling how a startup saved $100k by not supporting IE or how hundreds of developer hours were saved by not caring about the things that IE failed to render properly. It narrows down to the number of users an app or service has and also the demographics of the users. If you are building a hipster social network or a video post processing tool, ignoring IE is going to save you significant time since it can be assumed that a good percentage of the users are going to be on macs using the latest browsers. On the other hand, if you are catering to e-commerce, finance or any other common industry even thinking about ignoring IE isn't wise at this point. With jQuery and graceful degradation, fixing the major issues shouldn't be really hard.

PS: Can just-launched-starup ignore IE for their app? Probably.

Can Pinterest ignore IE8? Of course not. Even if it is 10% of their user base (I bet it will way more), they will be ignoring a few hundred thousand or may be a few million users!
I might be sounding a bit futuristic, but I think reference implementations should be auto-generated from a "spec" lang.

I don't know if a language for doing something like that even exists. Does anyone know of something like this?

EDIT: I should clarify: a spec should be _high-level_, i.e. abstract away all the unimportant details. Perhaps unit tests would be better in this case. Perl 6 follows this model.

But it would be even better if one could some how "fill in the details" of the specs separately, from the spec, rather than mesh the whole thing into one giant C puddle.
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